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Video Offers Glimpses of Tehran Protests

4. Oktober 2012 — Fundstück

As my colleague Thomas Erdbrink reports, shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar closed their doors on Wednesday, after a protest by foreign-currency traders nearby was attacked by the security forces. The protests came as pressure from international sanctions caused a sudden plunge in the value of Iran’s currency, the rial, which has in turn played havoc with the buying and selling of foreign currency, angering merchants and the capital’s black-market money-changers, who work along Ferdowsi Avenue in central Tehran.